adeptly
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Willing was a facilitator and a beneficiary of government favoritism, Mr. Vague acknowledges, but that favoritism, adeptly channeled, allowed a fragile government to attract the support of wary capitalists.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 17, 2026
Murray defused the situation adeptly, declaring: "Playing at a Wimbledon final is tough and I certainly wouldn't want to be Prime Minister, it's a tough job."
From BBC ● Jun. 29, 2026
Parrilla finds the balance between Bruiser’s sauciness and seriousness; Byrne plays the clown adeptly; and Slattery, a boss again after “Mad Men,” softens his villainy with some Roger Sterling insouciance.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 14, 2025
Both novels adeptly knit together Native mythology and the supernatural to address bigger issues: in “Sisters,” the fate of missing and murdered Indigenous women; in “Indian Burial Ground,” addiction and suicide.
From Seattle Times ● Apr. 22, 2024
Meanwhile Klenam and I made the fufu, me pounding the steaming plantain and cassava together in the large wooden mortar while she turned and shaped the blended mass adeptly between each stroke of the pestle.
From "Flying Through Water" by Mamle Wolo
